Associate, Quantitative Front Office Engineer (AQR Capital Management, LLC, Greenwich, CT)

About AQR Capital Management

AQR is a global investment firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. By putting theory into practice, we have become a leader in alternative strategies and an innovator in traditional portfolio management since 1998.

 At AQR, our employees share a common spirit of academic excellence, intellectual honesty and an unwavering commitment to seeking the truth. We’re determined to know what makes financial markets tick – and we’ll ask every question and challenge every assumption.  We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.

Your Role:

• Enhance sophisticated low touch systematic rebalancing platform that helps the company manage all investment strategies and order generation workflows.
• Build or extend data and services platforms, optimization, and orchestration and validation engines; portfolio rebalancing and order generation platform and services; back-testers and related historical simulation tools; and, scalable AWS-based storage and computing infrastructure.
• Collaborate directly with researchers and portfolio managers to translate quantitative models into scalable engineering solutions. 
• Enhance system reliability and performance through rigorous testing, monitoring, and continuous integration practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of trading infrastructure by integrating new data sources and optimizing execution workflows; and, participate in architectural decisions and code reviews to ensure high standards of software quality and maintainability.
• Telecommuting permitted two days per week.

What You’ll Bring: 

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, or a related quantitative field of study plus three (3) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.  Must have three (3) years of experience with object-oriented programming languages including Java and Python; designing and translating solutions into high-quality code; Mathematical Optimization techniques, objective function, and constraint setups; developing and designing cloud-based distributed micro-services; and, building quantitative finance applications utilizing knowledge of equity and macro asset classes.

The salary range is $131,186.00-$185,000.00/year.

AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY.